First "Cool Linux Story" Contest Winner | Linux Today

First “Cool Linux Story” Contest Winner

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 1999

Thanks to David Sifry
for this link.

LinuxCare is happy to
announce that Herbert the Secret Linux
Server
has won a Diamond Rio as the first “Cool Linux Story”
Contest weekly winner. Brighten up your day reading over the winner
and 5 runners up. Stories include: “Linux Emulates Linux”, “All
Linux All The Time”, and “Cat on a Hot Motherboard”: Thanks to Linux, I saved
our $500,000 mainframe, saved a kitten’s life, and got a 600 dollar
bonus…”

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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